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FROM THE CHAIR
The new government says...
Kate Baddock
FEATURES
When NOT to use antibiotics...
Patient portals: burdens, blessings and a
cautionary tale
Susan Reid
FROM THE POLICY DESK
Find out about recent NZMA submissions
IN THIS ISSUE
PROFILE
Rathi Vadhani
OBITUARY
John Samuel Hopkirk
FROM NZMJ
MEMOIR
Sister Salam
Buzz Burrell
Time for healthy investment
Scott Metcalfe, Sanji Gunasekara, Kate Baddock,
Lesley Clarke, for the New Zealand Medical
Association
Rationing access to deceased donor kidney
transplantation: New Zealand charts her own
course
Stephen Munn
The outcomes of patients returned to general
practitioner after being declined hip and knee
replacement
Toni Anitelea, Ella Iosua, Ayaaz Ebramjee,
David Gwynne-Jones
Is cardiomegaly on chest radiograph
representative of true cardiomegaly: a cross-
sectional observational study comparing
cardiac size on chest radiograph to that on
echocardiography
Jane McKee, Katherine Ferrier
Iron-pill inhalation
Matlawene J Mpe, William Diprose
Child morbidity as described by hospital
admissions for primary school aged children
in Tonga 2009–2013
Fiona Catherine Langridge, Sione Vaioleti
Hufanga, Malakai Mahunui ‘Ofanoa,
Toakase Fakakovikaetau, Teuila Mary Percival,
Cameron Charles Grant
The battle for better nutrition: the role of the
escalating fruit and vegetable prices
Isaac Amoah, Carolyn Cairncross, Elaine Rush
SUMMARIES
Read summaries from
The New Zealand Medical Journal
Risk of major congenital malformations in
relation to maternal overweight and obesity
severity
Commencement of cardioselective beta-
blockers during hospitalisation for acute
exacerbations of chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease
Health effects of overweight and obesity in 195
countries over 25 years
Lithium use in pregnancy and the risk of
cardiac malformations
Adverse events associated with statin therapy?
Prenatal antidepressant use and risk of
attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in
offspring
100 YEARS AGO IN NZMJ
Intestinal Obstruction by a Band in an Infant
Nineteen Days Old—End-to-End Union—
Recovery
December 1917
Ambroise Paré, Army Surgeon
December 1917
METHUSELAH